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Category: New web site

  • AdSense-Deluxe to ease Google advertisment on a WordPress web site

    For some time now, I use a small plug-in that I feel is quite nice to help me manage specifically the advertisment banners from Google AdSense on my web site. You may have already noticed one or two of those ads that appear right in the body of a posted article. Usually, it is quite…

  • A blog on the Earth surface

    It is said to be a good idea for any web site to use geolocalisation services. So, I added the little map you can find at the bottom right of the pages of this site (since today). It shows a map of Paris around our location. What do you feel about this? A good idea?…

  • CSS tips and tricks: Organize your code

    If you are like me, organizing your CSS code is as difficult as understanding it. The Blog Herald has one neat post with tips about organizing and writing your CSS. I don’t know if it is perfect, but it already looks quite good.

  • 6 steps to a web site

    If you want to publish a web site, you may be interested by the following series of articles I wrote about how to quickly create a full-fledged web site using WordPress. Get a domain name Rent web publishing space Connect web space and domain name Configure the Apache server Install WordPress Call the search engines…

  • Step 6: Call the search engines

    You certainly heard that the magic key to Internet audience for your web site is the visibility in Search Engines. Unfortunately, this is only a small part of the landscape. Out of the small circles of Internet marketing honchos, there are many false stories and true rumours. If you want to keep your mind clear,…

  • Step 5: Install WordPress

    Now, if you want to fulfill the next step of this “creating a new web site” tutorial, you have to decide which software to use to write your web site. The choice is quite wide, but I will describe two main options: Doing it all by yourself Using WordPress

  • Step 4: Configure the Apache server

    Oops! This one is certainly more thoroughly complex than the rest of the steps of this “creating a new web site” tutorial. More positively, usually, you do not need to take this step. In my personal case, for the creation of the Lexyk.com dictionary web site, I needed to add a small specific helper. I…

  • Step 3: Connect web space and domain name

    Essentially, after renting some space from your web hosting company, only this company and you know where your web site is hosted. Nobody else has this key information. Even more important, the company your hired to provide this information to the rest of the Internet (the registrar you hired to provide Domain Name Service –…

  • Step 2: Rent web publishing space

    After reserving a domain name, your web site does not really move yet. You need to have some space where to put your data (your text, your images, etc.). Usually this is a space rented to a hosting company. Note: It is true that you could buy this space (instead of renting it); You would…